‘Beautiful architecturebadly lit is like a handsomeman badly dressed: it losesmost of its charm’ ‘Light changes people’‘Light reveals itself asa creative medium,becoming the agency bywhich a building and thespaces within are formedand arranged’

ALESSANDRA BERTOLINI
artec3 Studio
Alessandra Bertolini is an associate
director of Barcelona’s artec3 Studio.
She holds a lighting design master’s
from the Università La Sapienza in
Rome, which she gained
after studying architecture
at Università Roma Tre.

Before joining artec3 Studio
she was a senior lighting
designer at LightIQ and
Sutton Vane Associates
in London. She tried her
hand at stage lighting as a
volunteer at Teatro Valle
Occupato in Rome and
has studied hotel design.

Her other claim to fame is
winning ‘funniest light art
installation’ two years running at an
annual UK manufacturer’s event.

CASHEL BROWN
Nulty+
Irish lighting designer Cashel Brown
graduated from the MA lighting
design programme at Edinburgh
Napier University in 2015, where he
was a beneficiary of the Jonathan
Speirs Scholarship Fund. His
study there explored light and its
relationship with space through
kinetic sculpture and projection, and
lighting’s role in place-making and
branding. His dissertation addressed
the topic of the lighting festival and its
role in urban design and economies,
a subject that remains close to his
heart. Since November 2015, he has
been working with London-based
Nulty+ on a diverse range of projects
from high-end residential to large
scale projects within the public sector.

SERGIO BOCCIASergio BocciaLighting DesignAlthough based in Milan, SergioBoccia has been what he describes asa ‘lighting globetrotter by necessity’,since 2002 working on projects as farflung as the PRC and Dubai, initiallyfor DPA Lighting and more recentlyon his own account. Concerned with‘direct experience of lightat both local and globalscale, ‘ he is ‘intrigued by theinterplay between cultureof light and environment,’and has worked with RenzoPiano, David Chipperfieldand Piero Castiglioniamong others. His 2012design manifesto includedthe provocative maxims‘darkness is the new luxury’,‘architecture is a socialservice’, ‘light cannot bedrawn’ and ‘totally inefficient planningshould be welcomed’.